I present a performance edition of the show, a recording made at a recent reading hosted by Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Foundation. Thanks to Jimmy Vega, director, and Eric Ahlberg for recording. Playwright Daniel Olivas, poet Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, and short story writer Lisa Alvarez shared their work on a recent Friday night at LA’s longest-running literary and cultural arts venue. Today you’ll hear Alvarez (introduced by Olivas, author of Waiting for Godinez) read from her collection Some Final Beauty and Other Stories and Guzman-Lopez (introduced by Alvarez) read from his California Southern: Writing from the Road, 1992-2025. (More from that evening on a later episode.) Meanwhile, both Alvarez and Guzman-Lopez explore, celebrate, and dramatize life, politics, place, and people in Southern California over decades in two breakthrough collections that could have been written only by devoted longtime chroniclers of our region.The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.

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